URL submitter?

[chin]

Any good and free URL submitter that can submit the URL to major search engines and directory?

[nivlek78]

Personally, just submit your site to DMOZ and let the spiders do the rest.
Furthermore, most of these so called "free" submitters end up submitting to engines that is not relevant or spams you.

Site submission has been and still is over-rated. With proper, clean, validated coding, good content with healthy usage of keywords and proper usage of tags without any "SE cheating" techniques, your site should be ranked healthily in no time.

Just few hours ago, I got an email from a company in Bangladesh who was impressed with the search engine rankings for our sites for many well searched keywords.

They asked "Could you submit our site to yahoo such that we get that sort of ranking?"
Obviously all I could do is point them to both the paid and free url submission in yahoo, then explain how search engine rank and index sites and how we can help them achieve better ranking through better copywrited content and better coding practices.
Of cos, link popularity helps for google.

However, if you still are looking for a url submitter, you can find one at www.submitcorner.com/Tools/Submit

Hope I was of help

[fred]

it will be better for you to submit manually, search engines dont like automated stuff :P

[alien]

Forget about those that claim submiting site to 100000 search engines and FFA directories. You only need to be listed in the major search engines.

[userguy]

Yup. Major engines such as the Google, Yahoo, Lycos, etc...the other minor ones would just spider the links from there. Anyway, there isn't many URL submitter scripts out there. If you want to, you could try out Search Engine Submit (http://www.jeff.uni.cc/scripts/submit). Looks quite decent to me.

[Jeff H]

Originally posted by userguy
Yup. Major engines such as the Google, Yahoo, Lycos, etc...the other minor ones would just spider the links from there. Anyway, there isn't many URL submitter scripts out there. If you want to, you could try out Search Engine Submit (http://www.jeff.uni.cc/scripts/submit). Looks quite decent to me.

Hi there, just wanted to pop in and say hi since this is my script. If you have any questions, suggestions, etc, please feel free to contact me.

[michaelfoo]

Good day Jeff,
Welcome to SGWHT!

Just a suggestion about your script. I hope you don't mind. Since you require the user to download your script in order to run it, why don't you make another META tag generator together with the script? This will help to generate META tags for the web site. You can add in the field, META NAME="url/email" with the content of the user's URL & Email.

After that, call the script to retrieve the META contents instead of asking the user to key in his URL & Email again. I hope you get what I mean.

Thanks.

[Jeff H]

Hi there, suggestions for improvement are always appreciated.

Right now I'm not entirely grasping your suggestion. Do you mean that there should be fields for title, META keywords, and META description? Or do you mean that the email&URL should be redisplayed in the form boxes after the submission is made? Or do you mean something entirely different?

[michaelfoo]

Hi there,
I'll explain it this way:
1st page - Contains a link to Meta Tag builder & Search engine submission.

Meta Tag builder page - Contains necessary fields for building Meta Tags. You know, not everyone knows how to build a Meta tag. Even if they do, they are lazy to type all the words out again (for example, I'm the first one :D)

Search Engine Submission - Contains a button, which will automatically submit the web site to search engines. You can remove the Email address & URL field. It should auto detect the Meta tag for the site (including the field, URL & Email), which the script is hosted on.

I hope you get what I mean. This way you will get a 2 in 1 script and also, one single click to submit the site.

[Jeff H]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll consider adding a metatag builder as an addon or creating it as a separate script.

The problem with auto-filling the domain field is that many people create services for other people to submit their websites with. Thus, gearing it only toward people submitting the site the script is on would be taking a step backward in terms of versatility.